Open AccessPre- and Postnatal Polychlorinated Biphenyl Concentrations and Longitudinal Measures of Thymus Volume in Infants
Author(s) -
Todd A. Jusko,
Dean Sonneborn,
Ľubica Palkovičová,
Anton Kočan,
Beata Drobná,
T. Trnovec,
Irva HertzPicciotto
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1104229
Subject(s) - polychlorinated biphenyl , in utero , medicine , confidence interval , cohort , physiology , percentile , pregnancy , fetus , obstetrics , biology , chemistry , environmental chemistry , statistics , mathematics , genetics
Previously, we reported an association between higher maternal polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) concentrations and smaller thymus volume in newborns in a birth cohort residing in eastern Slovakia.
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